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Eyre Square (/ ɛər / AIR; Irish: An Fhaiche Mhór) is a city public park in Galway, Ireland. The park is within the city centre, adjoining the nearby shopping area of William Street and Shop Street.
Charlie Byrne's is a bookshop located in the Cornstore Mall on Middle Street in Galway, close to Shop Street and the Augustinian Church. As of 2019, it reportedly contained more than 100,000 new and used books. [1] Writers often launch their books here.
Shop Street (Irish: Sráid na Siopaí) is the main thoroughfare of the city of Galway in the west of Ireland.It has been pedestrianised since the late 20th century. [1]As its name suggests, it is Galway's main shopping street, and was one of the first streets in the city to develop a retail focus. [2]
A second restaurant opened two years later in Gort, followed by an Eyre Square premises in Galway city which opened in 1982. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] As of November 2013 [update] , Supermac's was the largest Irish-owned quick service food chain, [ 9 ] with over 100 outlets across Ireland .
As of November 2023, there are 19 branches of Golden Discs (excluding the online store) located throughout Ireland: Dublin: Blanchardstown, Dundrum, Jervis Street, Liffey Valley, Stephen's Green, Swords, and Tallaght. Rest of Leinster: Athlone, Drogheda, Kilkenny, Navan, Newbridge, and Wexford. Connacht: Eyre Square (Galway City) and Sligo.
The Eyres after whom the village is named, as well as other places such as Eyre Square in Galway City, were an English family who came over with Cromwell. [3] Their former residence, Eyrecourt Castle (now a ruin), [4] provides the large metal gateway at the eastern end of main street and the 100-acre (0.40 km 2) castle lawn beyond.
Galway Cathedral These cannons, previously at Eyre Square and since moved to Galway City Hall, were presented to the Connaught Rangers at the end of the Crimean War (1854–1856) in recognition of their military achievements. The Millennium Children's Park in Galway, next to one of the city's many canals.
A display of the 14 tribal flags in Eyre Square, Galway. The Tribes of Galway (Irish: Treibheanna na Gaillimhe) were 14 merchant families who dominated the political, commercial and social life of the city of Galway in western Ireland between the mid-13th and late 19th centuries.